The Record for the Most Babies Born to One Woman is 69

Today I found out that the record for most babies born to one woman is 69. Yes, you read that correctly 69!

Who was this amazing woman with apparently a womb of steel and a vagina her husband just couldn’t say no too? We don’t really know. (anti-climactic I know) Her husband is the one whose name has lived on because of her crazy baby making skills. (Feminists of the world unite!) She was the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia who lived from 1707-1782. We can only speculate how many fire safety ordinances he violated by housing all his progeny in his little peasant sized hovel. Presumably, at some point they also had to choose to feed on the weak ones in order to provide food for the strong.

How did she manage this feat given most women only have about 30-ish years of baby making ability? She gave birth to sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets; so basically a veritable baby making factory who scoffs at “one at a timing” it. Amazingly, 67 of her children survived infancy, which was a remarkable rate for the day. No word on whether either of her breasts could say the same.

Now, let’s just take a step back here. She was the “first wife” of Feodor Vassilyev. Seeming to imply he married again. (Polygamy was not generally practiced at that time in Russia; so we can assume he was only married to one lady at a time.) So this guy goes out; shuns wearing tighty whities (presumably); gets married; invests all his money in a baby naming book; then apparently takes every second his wife isn’t pregnant as a personal affront to his manhood; then she presumably kills herself (I mean really, wouldn’t you?) and he then somehow manages to swindle another woman into wanting to be his wife and take on raising his clan? Can you imagine remembering all 67 of their names? Especially considering that woman would also need to deal with the fact that many of them came in identical sets. I don’t know about you, but my parents have to go through every one of my siblings names before they can correctly say mine when they want to get my attention. That must have taken forever in that family.

Then, of course, after old Feodor Vassilyev swindles her into becoming his second wife, he presumably decided to use her vagina as a clown car too. *shudders*

The really amazing thing of it is that with the 67 surviving kids, if each of them had 2 kids (a low number for back then, but we’ll be conservative here) and each of their kids had 2 kids and so on, and we assume about 25-ish years between generations. Then this couple currently has around 70,000 descendants!

@Loud Sigh:
OF COURSE possession makes sense in this context.
As Nick said before, ‘it’s’ is totally wrong because it’s an abbreviation of ‘it is’ . Now, replace ‘it’s’ with ‘it is’ in the sentence. Does it make sense? NO. Congratulations.
Yours, an eight-grade student from germany.

Something tells me Russian families tend to be large, considering my great grandfather immigrated from Russia and was one of 29 children. His father had two wives- one that gave birth to 15 children, the other to 14 children. I believe his family had a farm or such.

Maybe to you. You must remember, though: humor is subjective. What isn’t funny to you may be funny to others, and vice versa.
Do not act like your comedy tastes are fact, because they’re not; they’re opinion.

i don’t like the insults slamming the authors method of writing, if she wants to put things in her articles to try and keep the reader interested, even if the article is already interesting. i found the author and the article to be very good.

What on Earth8o
People commenting on her way of writing?
Honestly , the point of this was to learn about the facts and whoever it was, you are correct , it is an opinion and if you did not enjoy it, go read somewhere else.
I enjoyed this article (:
The woman clearly LOVED children:O
And the man clearly LOVED providing them:P

So the husband lived to be 75. And had 69 children and time to marry again? These numbers do not make sense. Lets assume he had the occasional twin or triplet, that would make maybe 50-59 years of baby making. Where is the time to remarry? Maybe he remarried and died within the same year?interesting story, but very unbelievable

Mandy, seriously, you must be a blonde. Numbers and words confuse you, huh? I mean it says in the story that there were 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. Just in case this is to much for you to comprehend, twins means having 2 babies in one birth, triplets means having 3 babies in one birth, and the biggest word, quadruplets, means having 4 babies in one birth. As for the story it may sound unbelievable, but it is documented in the book of world records, so do some research, (if you can without forgetting what you’re trying to find out), before you comment and make yourself look like an uneducated person typing because she can(barely).

Interesting article and sorry to be that guy again, but there are quite a few linguistic boo-boo’s in there that I’d like to correct.

1. “Yes, you read that correctly 69!” should have a “:” after “correctly”;
2. All the (….) thoughts should be put before the period of the regular sentence and should not have a period themselves
3. “her husband just couldn’t say no too?”, change “too” to “to”
4. “peasant sized hovel” = “peasant-size hovel”
5. “She was the “first wife” of Feodor Vassilyev, seeming to imply he married again.”
6. “So this guy goes out”, everything after that should be separated by comma’s, not semi-colons.
7. “Especially considering that this woman”
8. “and we assume about 25-ish years between generations, then this couple currently has around 70,000 descendants!”

Wow… People trying to teach when they clearly didn’t pay much attention in English class…. Callipygian, if you would have lifted your head to listen to your teacher at least once other than thinking you’re much smarter than everyone else in the class, you would know that substituting a semicolon for a comma is acceptable so there aren’t a bunch of commas in a passage, but you know that don’t you? Wait… no you don’t. Also, this is just an online article, you don’t need to swoop in thinking you can sit and pointlessly correct the author just so you have something to do. If you seriously think trolling the internet for mistakes is fun, then you have some serious problems.

Why are people correcting his grammar? That is rude and immature. Just read it for the interest in it! If you wish to correct grammar, then become a Lanuage Arts teacher! People make typos, etc! I found the article funny and interesting! Great job Mr. Daven Hiskey! This new “Grammar Nazi” fad is getting very old, quickly! People seem to think it cool to grade articles, thinking that makes them smarts, when in all actuality just reading and comprehending what the article is about, is what makes you smart! Really people, high school standardized test are mostly reading an article and answering comprehensive questions on it! This guy is doing better than half of you are, writing this article, when you “Grammer Nazis” are probably sitting in your bed on your laptop at your mother’s house still! Again, good job Mr. Daven! And if I made any typos, or mistakes in this, quite frankly, I don’t care!

DEAR DAVEN. I HOPE/ REQUEST U TO HAVE/ MAKE A SYSTEM FOR FILTERING OR BANNING IDIOTS LIKE “EMJO”, “Penetrator”, “AL”, “MANDY”…. AND ALL THE RECURRING LANGUAGE & GRAMMER EXPERTS FROM THIS BOARD. APART FROM THE GOOD ARTICLES U PROVIDE, U MUST ALSO MAINTAIN A BASIC MINIMUM STANDARD OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS BOARD/ FORUM. MEBBE….YOUR INHERENT DECENCY IS A LIABILITY SOMETIMES/ SOMEPLACES. OR SEEMS LIKE U R A FOLLOWER OF MAHATMA GANDHI.

I highly doubt the multiples were identical. Fraternal multiples are generic while identical multiples os just a random thing that happens. For that random thing to happen so many times to one person, is highly unlikely. Therefore, her multiples were probably, mostly, if not all, fraternal.

I read about this woman and her 69 children. However, the article I read implied that it might not have been true. I am not a writer. With that said, I thought the article lacked substance. I think I would probably tell my husband to get fixed after the first set of twins.

No matter what , the subject matter here is nuts. Just saying , that man must of have a overly working pituitary gland that never shut down. Oh that is horrible, like a dog humping 24-7 . Surprised his weiner isn’t broke or worn down to a numb from so much friction. Not counting the other indulging acts he probably put the woman through.